Posted on 06/11/2014 10:32:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — David Brat, the man who derailed Representative Eric Cantor’s congressional career and aspirations to become speaker of the House, faced such long odds in his challenge to the No. 2 House Republican that he failed to win the backing of any of the major Tea Party groups that inspired his candidacy.
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Agree Mr. K.
Donate right to the candidate..no overhead, no worries about where your funds are going.
Agree! There is nothing about Brat’s win on Tea Party Patriots site. Jenny Beth Martin is just a money grubber
Recently I read that they ( the Tea party big wigs) are taking down huge salaries.
Left-wing disinformation from the nyt.
Excellent analogy.
I did. I was early on impressed by Professor Brat and donated $50, not a huge sum but his campaign obviously made good use of the small sums they had to work with.
In order to get $50 to his campaign, you would have had to give $1000 to TEA Party Express.
The left cannot comprehend true grassroots support. Everything they do must have a hierarchy with control at the top. You see this in unions, you see it in the victims groups, you see it in advocacy groups. It would be an alien concepts to the NY Slimes that there is no man, no board, no shadowy figure behind the curtain controlling Tea Partier actions. They have no idea that people can be loyal to an ideal rather than an orgainization, thus the headline of this article.
“tea party” is a euphemism for patriotic Americans used by DC insiders when they attempt to define and freeze the opposition to their totalitarianism. The “Tea Party” is what anyone who wants to use that moniker makes it to be! Any more questions?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/11/cantors-defeat-mythbuster-edition/
Myth - The race was another battle in the national civil war between the tea party and the Republican establishment.
Reality - New nominee Dave Brat got a big boost from talk radio heavy hitters like Mark Levin, but this was a very local election. While tea party groups are stampeding to Richmond to lay claim to Brat’s success, they’re late in coming. Brat had zero backing from any of the national groups that are forever raising money for their fight against the GOP old guard. Brat is certainly more conservative than Cantor, but he hardly fits the preferred national narrative.
[“It wasn’t a contest between the tea party and the Republicans and all this. Although I had tremendous tea party support and just wonderful people in the tea party grass roots helping me out, and they’re clearly responsible for the win, but I ran on the Republican principles.” – Dave Brat on “Hannity.” Watch full interview here.]
I’d say an appreciable number of Tea Party patriots were never taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, particularly Section 8 of Article I. So fighting the unconstitutionally big federal government with platitudes that appeal to conservatives instead of referencing specific constitutional clauses to argue their grievances has yielded limited results.
>>> He hasn’t read that excellent little tale.
“The Tea Party isn’t the ship. The Tea Party isn’t the sails of the ship. The Tea Party isn’t even the crew on the ship.
The Tea Party is the wind.”<<<
I LIKE that!
Care to run that by me again? I don’t understand.
I did not send money to a PAC. I sent the check directly to Brat’s campaign headquarters.
They don’t get it, and they deliberately don’t want to get it.
The “Tea Party” is not a formal group, it is individuals who have decided to only vote for individuals.
You can’t stop it. You can’t predict it using party oriented polling methods.
Bull. The so called national tea party groups are just a bunch of opportunists. The only real Tea Party is the local Tea Party and the Rjchmond area Tea Party groups got Dave Brat elected.
I can’t believe that people on FR can be so dense to not know that the Tea Party IS the grassroots. The national groups are pure opportunists.
I can’t believe that people on FR can be so dense to not know that the Tea Party IS the grassroots. The national groups are pure opportunists.
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